Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

Help your kid keep track of all the developments that led to the American Revolution, by portraying the steps visually and literally!

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!